Proclamation Quotes

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

— Ann Coulter

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...

— George Washington

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

— David Platt

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

— George Washington

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

— Abraham Lincoln

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

— Pope Francis

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid,…

— Pope Francis

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

— Dallin H. Oaks

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

— O. S. Hawkins

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any…

— James Sinegal

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

— Mary Robinson

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

— Frank Bruno

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins,…

— Lyndon B Johnson

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

— Noam Chomsky

Are we capable of bringing the word of God into the environment in which we live? Do we know how to speak…

— Pope Francis

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,…

— Rafael Cruz

The proclamation of Jesus is not a veneer: the proclamation of Jesus goes straight to the bones, heart, goes deep within and…

— Pope Francis

Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family…

— Bonnie L. Oscarson

Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends…

— Argus Hamilton

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say…

— Anne Provoost

The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian…

— Pope Francis

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of…

— Robert Farrar Capon

I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove…

— Helen Keller

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In…

— Eric Foner

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need…

— Darrin Patrick

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.…

— Jacque Fresco

For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the…

— Pope Francis

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract…

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.…

— Christopher Hitchens

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

— Malcolm X

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time…

— Henry Miller

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

— Timothy Keller

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

— Abraham Lincoln

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.

— William Henry Willimon

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

— Francis James Grimke

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

— Ernesto Cardenal